Sunday 17th October
Symphony left us on Friday morning, heading for the coast and supplies. We did more snorkeling and swimming.
That afternoon we decided we should start heading south again. Too late. We should have left on the Friday because the weather Saturday was not good.
Early Saturday morning the 20knot wind and waves swung around to the south. The main sea swell was still coming from north east. We couldn’t sail south into the wind and we couldn’t see anything around that was sheltered from both north east and south, so we stayed put and rocked around.
By lunchtime the wind had eased and swung easterly giving us shelter again. The wind was going to drop off completely during the night and we have waited till today to set off to Keppel Island. Being approximately 200km away, it will be a day and night sail.
Unfortunately Lydia decided to go for a dive before we left. It is a tragedy. After all that diving and this was to be her last ever dive. In the water only minutes. When we got her back to the boat, we didn’t think she was going to make it. We tried resuscitation in a cup full of rice, but she was gone. Glenda the Gopro is dead. RIP. Only send gif’s or jpg’s in memory.
